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Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts: School Year 2004—05 (Fiscal Year 2005)
NCES 2007-355
June 2007


Table 3.  Current expenditures per pupil at the 5th, median, and 95th percentile cutpoints, federal range ratio, and numbers of districts and students for public elementary and secondary regular school districts, by state and independent charter school districts: Fiscal year 2005
 
State and independent
charter school districts
Current expenditures1 per pupil      
5th percentile Median 95th percentile Federal range ratio2 Number of districts Number of students
United States  $6,176 $8,237 $15,301 1.5 13,830 47,861,248
 
Alabama  6,135 6,974 8,300 0.4 130 729,342
Alaska  8,786 15,255 27,234 2.1 53 132,568
Arizona  5,495 7,538 16,586 2.0 215 920,235
Arkansas  6,209 7,127 9,123 0.5 254 461,667
California  6,260 7,473 13,176 1.1 966 6,233,136
 
Colorado  6,313 8,044 13,313 1.1 178 765,388
Connecticut  9,573 11,167 15,165 0.6 166 552,512
Delaware  8,305 10,402 12,251 0.5 16 106,734
District of Columbia  12,979 1 62,306
Florida  6,454 7,242 8,852 0.4 67 2,645,280
 
Georgia  6,713 7,773 10,209 0.5 179 1,552,483
Hawaii  8,786 1 183,185
Idaho  5,315 7,114 12,712 1.4 114 253,782
Illinois  5,974 7,793 12,218 1.0 876 2,072,437
Indiana  6,736 8,110 11,046 0.6 292 1,014,528
 
Iowa  6,440 7,406 9,957 0.5 367 478,319
Kansas  6,705 8,450 11,589 0.7 300 468,481
Kentucky  6,070 6,930 8,508 0.4 176 674,502
Louisiana  6,456 7,628 9,550 0.5 68 717,625
Maine  8,280 10,597 16,784 1.0 222 198,356
 
Maryland  8,704 9,350 11,809 0.4 24 865,561
Massachusetts  8,522 10,555 16,672 1.0 302 930,045
Michigan  7,074 8,030 11,387 0.6 552 1,647,296
Minnesota  6,636 8,089 10,811 0.6 345 814,546
Mississippi  5,606 6,548 8,372 0.5 152 494,382
 
Missouri  5,605 7,099 10,572 0.9 522 902,659
Montana  5,714 9,008 22,242 2.9 436 146,552
Nebraska  5,714 8,658 17,500 2.1 477 284,553
Nevada  6,386 8,575 24,833 2.9 17 400,083
New Hampshire  7,768 10,077 15,619 1.0 162 202,223
 
New Jersey  10,111 12,423 17,605 0.7 551 1,349,413
New Mexico  6,791 9,501 16,989 1.5 89 326,102
New York  10,580 13,392 23,566 1.2 695 2,818,858
North Carolina  6,483 7,489 9,607 0.5 115 1,347,177
North Dakota  6,137 8,793 19,750 2.2 206 100,413
 
Ohio  6,707 7,696 10,594 0.6 613 1,778,784
Oklahoma  5,517 6,985 11,403 1.1 540 629,145
Oregon  6,695 8,025 18,833 1.8 195 550,284
Pennsylvania  7,463 8,894 12,062 0.6 500 1,755,560
Rhode Island  8,589 10,669 13,803 0.6 36 153,596
 
South Carolina  6,630 7,562 9,655 0.5 85 701,176
South Dakota  6,064 7,560 13,283 1.2 165 124,862
Tennessee  5,465 6,271 7,719 0.4 135 940,769
Texas  6,361 7,690 12,636 1.0 1,039 4,336,944
Utah  4,713 6,331 11,576 1.5 40 488,055
 
Vermont  7,650 10,571 14,941 1.0 239 92,819
Virginia  7,223 8,252 11,765 0.6 132 1,203,697
Washington  6,718 7,848 17,477 1.6 296 1,019,925
West Virginia  8,227 9,052 9,935 0.2 55 279,456
Wisconsin  8,071 9,342 11,712 0.5 426 869,301
Wyoming  9,148 11,262 23,113 1.5 48 84,146
Independent charter school districts3  4,461 7,229 14,868 2.3 1,457 434,258
† Not applicable. The District of Columbia and Hawaii consist of one school district each.
1 Current expenditures include instruction, instruction-related, support services, and other elementary/secondary current expenditures, but exclude expenditures on capital outlay, other programs and payments to state and local governments, interest on long-term debt, payments to other school districts, and payments to private and charter schools.
2 The federal range ratio indicates the difference between the amount per pupil of the district at the 95th percentile and the district at the 5th percentile divided by the amount per pupil for the district at the 5th percentile.
3 All associated schools are charter schools.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "School District Finance Survey (F-33)," fiscal year 2005, Version 1a.

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